Joseph Epstein on the book by Josh Lambert titled “The Literary Mafia: Jews, Publishing, and Postwar American Literature”

From a Wall Street Journal review by Joseph Epstein of the book by Josh Lambert titled “The Literary Mafia: Jews, Publishing, and Postwar American Literature”:

Two old Jewish men are sitting on a park bench, where one has been bemoaning the worldwide return of anti-Semitism. After a while, his companion interrupts him to say that as he sees it, au contraire, the Jews have never been in better shape: They dominate the financial world, they control the media, politicians are in their pockets, Israel is stronger and more menacing than ever. The first man, astonished, asks on what he bases this. “Simple,” says the second man, “I listen to no radio, read no newspapers, and watch only Al Jazeera.”